女人意外地垃圾桶300万英镑的比特币财富在“有史以来最糟糕的错误”中

埃莉·哈特（Ellie Hart）在春季清洁时抛出了USB闪存驱动器

A couple are struggling to move on with their lives after accidentally binning their £3million Bitcoin fortune.

一对夫妇意外地筹集了300万英镑的比特币财富，努力继续生活。

Ellie Hart tossed out a USB flash drive while spring cleaning - without realising the device was where partner Tom kept his crypto currency.

埃莉·哈特（Ellie Hart）在春季清洁时抛出了USB闪存驱动器 - 没有意识到该设备是汤姆（Tom）保留他的加密货币的地方。

The primary school teacher, 34, said: “It was just sitting in a drawer with old receipts, dead batteries and tangled wires. I assumed it was one of my school memory sticks and threw it out without thinking.”

34岁的小学老师说：“它只是坐在一个带有旧收据，死电池和纠结的电线的抽屉里。我以为这是我的学校记忆棒之一，不思考就把它扔掉了。”

Days later, Tom, 36, couldn’t find the flash drive, so the website developer quizzed Ellie about where it had gone.

几天后，现年36岁的汤姆（Tom）找不到闪存驱动器，因此网站开发人员对艾莉（Ellie）的去向询问。

She said: “He asked if I’d seen a little black USB stick he uses for his Bitcoin. I froze. I knew instantly. My heart just sank. I told him: ‘I think I threw it away.’ I felt absolutely sick.”

她说：“他问我是否看过他用来比特币的黑色USB棍子。我冻结了。我立刻知道。我的心只是沉没了。我告诉他：'我想我把它扔掉了。'我感到绝对恶心。”

Ellie added: “We even emptied rubbish bags and tore open bin liners. There was this horrible mix of panic and hope, but deep down, I knew it was already too late.”

艾莉补充说：“我们甚至清空了垃圾袋，撕开了敞开的垃圾衬里。这种可怕的恐慌和希望，但内心深处，我知道这已经太晚了。”

She described the blunder as “the worst mistake I’ve ever made”.

她将这一错误描述为“我有史以来最严重的错误”。

Savvy Tom bought the Bitcoin in 2013, when the currency was worth considerably less, explained the couple from Market Harborough, Leics.

汤姆（Tom）在2013年购买了比特币，当时货币的价值降低了，这对莱斯市场（Market Harborough）的夫妻解释说。

Tom explained that over the years, his ‘e-wallet’ stored on the USB stick was now worth more than £3m, but without the device, the funds are inaccessible.

汤姆（Tom）解释说，多年来，他存储在USB棒上的“电子屋”现在价值超过300万英镑，但没有设备，资金就无法获得。

Speaking to Play Casino Online with Playcasino.com! Review Site 2025, Ellie said: “Tom has been amazing. He hasn’t shouted, he hasn’t blamed me, but the silence says it all. That money would have been our future - a house, a holiday, everything - and I threw it out with a handful of junk mail.

与Playcasino.com在线玩赌场！评论网站2025年，埃莉说：“汤姆很棒。他没有大喊，他没有责怪我，但沉默说了一切。钱将是我们的未来 - 一所房子，一个假期，一切 - 我用少数垃圾邮件扔掉了它。

“It’s hard to move past something like this.

“很难经过这样的事情。

“You replay it constantly, the moment you picked it up, the second it landed in the bin. I’d do anything to undo it. I never thought something so valuable could look so ordinary.

“您不断地重播它，当您捡起它的那一刻，第二个降落在垃圾箱中。我会做任何事情来撤消它。我从来没有想过如此宝贵的东西看起来如此普通。

“If anyone out there is keeping money, or anything important, on a USB stick, please label it, lock it away, don't make the same mistake I did.”

“如果有人在USB棒上有钱或重要的东西，请标记它，将其锁定，不要犯同样的错误。”

A spokeswoman for Play Casino, which reports on digital trends and crypto currency culture, said: “It’s a heartbreaking reminder that digital fortunes can be lost in an instant.

一位有关数字趋势和加密货币文化的报道的Play Casino的女发言人说：“这令人心碎的提醒，数字命运可能会立即丢失。

“USB sticks, hard drives or devices storing crypto currency should be clearly labelled, securely stored and never left loose in a drawer.”

“应清楚地标记，牢固地存储并且永远不会在抽屉里放松，将存储加密货币的USB棒，硬盘驱动器或设备应被清楚地标记。”

Experts recommend that Bitcoin owners store their currency in offline wallets, known as ‘cold storage’, with the added bonus that they cannot be accessed by thieves via the internet.

专家建议比特币所有者将其货币存储在离线钱包中，称为“冷存储”，并增加了盗贼通过互联网无法访问的奖金。

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